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22-0-61
AN ORDINANCE
Amending Section 27-83 of
• Article IV "Motor Vehicles
and Traffic" of the Code of
the City of Evanston, 1957.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
SECTION 1: That Section 27-83 of Article
IV "Motor Vehicles and Traffic"
of the Code of the City of Evanston, 1957, be and the same is
hereby amended by adding the following:
It shall be unlawful for the operator of any
vehicle to back the same into any parking
stall in a public parking lot, or to back
same at any angle to the curb so as to
impede traffic upon a public street.
SECTION 2: All ordinances of parts of
ordinances in conflict herewith
are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3: This ordinance shall be in full
force and effect from and after
its passage, approval and publication, according to law.
INTRODUCED April 17 1961
ADOPTED April 24 1961
APPWVED April 24 1961
L
A 1Mayor
City Clerk
Approved as to form:
A Corporation Counsel
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Published: Y , 9
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July 10, 1961
To: Bert W. Johnson City Manager
Fromg Rex A. Bullinger Corporate Counsel
Re° Motor Vehicle Parking Sign Requirements
Ordinance 23-0-61, now being considered by the City Council,
if adopted, would prohibit the parking of motor vehicles within
8 feet of the approach or within 8 feet beyond a public alley or
private driveway.
The Uniform Act regulating traffic is provided under Chapter
95% of the Illinois Revised Statutes, Section 98 et. seq. Under
Section 122 of the Chapter the provisions of the Act shall be
applicable and uniform throughout the state and in all political
subdivisions and municipalities and no local authority shall enact
any ordinance in conflict with the provisions of the Act unless
expressly authorized.
Section 123 of the Act provides that the provisions of the
U.A.R.T. shall not be deemed to prevent local authorities with
respect to streets and highways under their jurisdiction and within
the reasonable exercise of their police powers from regulating
traffic with respect to 8 specific instances. The one in which
we are interested in connection with the proposed ordinance
empowers cities with respect to streets and highways under their
jurisdiction as follows!
1. Regulating the standing or parking of
vehicles.
` Thereafter, Section (b) of Section 123 provides as follows:
"No ordinance or regulation enacted
under subdivisions (1), (4), (5)9 (6), (7)
or (8) of this section shall be effective
until signs giving notice of such local
traffic regulations are posted upon or at
the entrances to the highway or part
thereof affected as may be most appropriate."
It is apparent from the foregoing that in the event that
Ordinance 23-0-61 is adopted that signs giving notice of this
parking regulation must be posted.
Section 185 of the U.A.R.T. grants to the Department of Public
Works and Buildings of the State of Illinois authority to prohibit
the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles, or to prescribe time
limits for parking, on any street or highway under the control and
jurisdiction of the Department or for the maintenance of which the
• Department is responsible. Under subsection (b), any such regulations
adopted by the Department shall not become effective until appropriate
signs are erected indicating such regulations. Under Section 187 of
the U.A.R.T., parking is prohibited in front of a public or private
driveway. However, the 8 foot regulation is not provided for.
It is apparent, therefore, that the enforcement of proposed
ordinance 23-0-61 on highways under the control and jurisdiction of
the Department of Public Works and Buildings would require the erection
of appropriate signs either by the Department or by the City with the
consent of the Department. As to those streets solely under the
jurisdiction of the City, enforcement of this ordinance would also
require the erection of signs in accordance with Section 123, sub-
section (b) hereinabove referred to.
Coin ion Counsel.
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